Himes specifically counterposes this idea of a planned incident by a martyr to what he sees as more random, spontaneous rioting, which he condemns as ineffectual and based in self-interest, as opposed to race betterment.

In the first composition of the present collection, the author establishes comparisons between the banks of a river and the gradual running-down experiences in life, to which he counterposes his concept of the meaning of life: namely, "the subaquatic currents on the fragile dividing line between the ephemeral and the eternal.

This emphasis on discourse involves a problematic notion of Shakespearean drama in general, which it is Berger's purpose to develop in the light of his apparent distaste for performance-centered criticism, and against which he counterposes a strongly text-centered criticism.

With a soundtrack that counterposes children's colloquialisms with the voice-over or image of an adult man, the film layers fragments of the past upon the present, often frustrating the spectator in doing so.

Thus, in her novel, Malinow counterposes a feminine aqueous mode, a type of corporal ink, against a Hispanic masculine world composed of words, that, ironically, instead of delivering a presence of person or object, always postpone true contact.

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